I spilled milk on my MacBook pro about an hour ago. It wasn't very much so I wiped it up immediately and didn't think anything of it. Then when I was using it a few keys on the right side of the keyboard (where the milk was spilled) stopped working such as the O and L key and the mouse was acting funny, whenever I would click something it would right click so I turned it off and put it in rice. I'm unsure if this was the right thing to do and if so how long I should keep it in the rice.

Milk is definitely not a good thing to spill on a piece of electronics. If your MBP still works once it dries out, count yourself lucky. Also, don't be surprised if it works for a while and then starts acting up. The sugars in the milk could slowly start corroding the innards of your MBP.

so the other hundreds of threads of spilt liquids due to owners imcompentence were not helpful?

I posted here to get help not criticism. Due to the fact that my laptop is in rice, I am using my phone to do this which makes it fairly difficult to search through other discussions so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask myself. People spill stuff all the time, accidents happen, just because people spill stuff does not mean they are incompetent. For example, you spelled incompetence wrong but I know it was a mistake and that you aren't incompetent.

so the other hundreds of threads of spilt liquids due to owners imcompentence were not helpful?

Move along if you don't like the thread.

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Originally Posted by Enf280

I posted here to get help not criticism. Due to the fact that my laptop is in rice, I am using my phone to do this which makes it fairly difficult to search through other discussions so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask myself. People spill stuff all the time, accidents happen, just because people spill stuff does not mean they are incompetent. For example, you spelled incompetence wrong but I know it was a mistake and that you aren't incompetent.

People like being rude on the internetz because there are no consequences. Ignore him.

Good call on the rice, hopefully it works out. If not you could always pick up a keyboard and a mouse to finish your work and go from there, so it doesn't impede your ability to keep productive. Hopefully you don't have to resort to that though.

Good call on the rice, hopefully it works out. If not you could always pick up a keyboard and a mouse to finish your work and go from there, so it doesn't impede your ability to keep productive. Hopefully you don't have to resort to that though.

That really sucks and I know how it is. My wife spilled half a glass of Diet Pepsi on her 13-inch MBP. We were horrified and we hurried and turned it off, turned it upside so the liquid could come out of the keyboard and left it like that for at least three hours to let it drain.

After that, I took off the bottom panel and checked for any moisture inside. I saw a few drops inside near the SuperDrive. Cleaned that up and then left it open for about two hours. Then I got a blow drier and blew cool air in it for a good hour to try and make sure any moisture I couldn't see was gone.

We were scared, but I turned it on after less than 24 hours of the spill. To our relief, it worked great. The only thing that happened is the left side keys make a little more noise now when typing on them, but nothing is sticky or anything since it was diet soda lol.

Good luck on your milk. That sugar, fat and protein would make me nervous and I'd make sure to check inside the MBP as well can cleanup any moisture you spot.

I spilled milk on my Thinkpad back around 2000. Keyboard didn't come back after drying. I found an out of town authorized service department, and they somehow fixed it under warranty. I haven't spilled milk on my computer since

If you are worried about the battery, just pop the cable thats connected.
It comes off real easily.

Not to be hateful or anything, but I hope you learned your lesson not to put any beverage near your MBP. That would suck if it happened again.
I mean there are times when you need to have some drink near you, but keep it at a safe distance or have something that has a lid.

And also dont put any crumbed food near it either.
Had an awful experience with my old PowerBook G4